Saʿd ibn Bakr

Overview

Saʿd ibn Bakr ibn Hawāzin is reckoned by the genealogists to Hawāzin, and its country is given in the badiya between the Ḥijāz and Najd. It is best known in the biographical tradition as the tribe among whom the Prophet is reported to have been nursed, by the custom that sent the children of Mecca out to the desert to be fostered. Two names on this page need separating, and both are regularly merged in casual writing. Bakr here is Bakr ibn Hawāzin, not Bakr ibn Wāʾil, who is reckoned to Rabīʿa and belongs to a different half of the ʿAdnānī scheme altogether. And Saʿd here is not Saʿd ibn Zayd Manāt of Tamīm, whose people are likewise called Banū Saʿd. The genealogists keep all four apart by the chain of fathers. This page describes a historical tribe and makes no statement about any modern family.

On lineage

Branch lists and affiliations here are given as reported by the classical genealogists, who themselves disagree. Nothing on this page establishes any living family's descent: a shared name may reflect descent, alliance (ḥilf) or clientage (walāʾ), and the sources usually say which only when they know.